PULLMAN – Artist Rick Lowe is presenting his lecture, “Toward Social Sculpture”, at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 in the Fine Arts Auditorium.
Lowe’s lecture is a free event and open to the public.
WSU’s Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts Committee (VPLAC), and the Department of Fine Arts, are supporting the lecture. “Toward Social Sculpture” is part of the VPLAC’s 2006-2007 thematic series “The Art of Confrontation.”
Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston, Texas. Lowe started the project after confronting the need for social change.
He renovated the disadvantaged Third Ward neighborhood into a thriving cultural center. The houses now provide residence to community members, gallery and performance space for African-American artists, and space for community social service programs.
Lowe was born in Eufaula, Alabama in 1961 and attended Harvard Graduate School of Design, in Cambridge, Mass. As an artist, Lowe has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. Since 1996, he has exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum; Contemporary arts Museum in Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles; Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York; Kwangji Bienale in Kwangji, Korea; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; Glassell School, and the Kumamoto State Museum in Kumamoto, Japan.
For more information contact Gail Siegel (509)335-2313; gsiegel@wsu.edu; or visit www.GetInvolved.wsu.edu/arts/vplac/.
